<p>The NMF scholarship at ASU does not require student to be in Barrett. It’s just that most students want to be a part of the program. Barrett dorms and food are more expensive than regular dorms. For Phoenix area kids, if cost is a serious issue they can get an exemption and live at home with family. </p>
<p>Scholarship requires 3.0 GPA and 30 credits completed per year to renew. Summer classes are permitted to reach 30 hours if a student falls behind during the year for some reason.</p>
<p>Barrett has 2 required honors classes. It’s a humanities sequence they call Human Event which is taken fall/spring freshman year. Other than that it’s pretty flexible. Human Event are very good classes. They are demanding. Lots of reading and difficult writing. Kids learn a lot, but much time is needed to earn a good grade. So if you’re a science type who hoped to avoid those sorts of classes with the AP History credits you painfully accumulated in HS, you may have mixed feelings. AP credit doesn’t buy you out of these. </p>
<p>In general the honors courses are nice because they have <25 students and are often taught by the best professors. But there aren’t many upper div. honors classes. My D has 2 in math, but they are barely upper div- 300 level. </p>
<p>To graduate from Barrett, need 3.25 GPA and 36 hours of honors credits, at least 18 of which must be upper div… Human Event is 6 credits. Students defend a required senior thesis that is 3-6 credits. The other 24-27 can be earned in many ways- honors courses, honors study abroad, research, internships, honors contracts with a prof in a regular course section. I think some students do drop Barrett later on, perhaps not interested in senior thesis.</p>